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The Best Undergraduate B-Schools for Ethics

As part of the 2013 Best Undergraduate B-Schools ranking, Bloomberg Businessweek asked undergraduate business students from this year’s graduating class to tell us, via an online survey, about their business school experience, from getting in to getting a job. One section of the survey singles out specific aspects of the business program and asks the students to grade them on a scale from A to F. Over the next few weeks, we will publish the top 10 B-schools in each specialty area, from accounting to entrepreneurship, culminating with publication of the entire undergraduate specialty ranking including 124 schools.

Today we look at ethics, a specialty that is led by two schools with strong religious foundations: the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business and Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management.

At Mendoza, the top-ranked school for ethics, the entire business curriculum is steeped in the university’s Catholic tradition, which stresses a values-based education. It’s the school’s founding mission. While ethics may not appear in every course description, it is a large part in every course.